Improvement in ornamental stove-plates



F P NICHOLSON Ornamental Stove-Plate.

No. 208,842. Patented Oct. 8,1878.

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N.PETERS. FHOTO LFIHOGRAPHER wnsnmerou n C UNITED STATES FRANCIS I. NICHOLSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PATENT QFFICE.

HIMSELF, AND TO EDWARD HOPPER, HENRY BENTLEY, AND THOMAS YVILLIAMS, EXECUTORS OF ESTATE OF CHARLES NOBLE, DECEASED.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTAL STOVE-PLATES.

Specification tbrming part of Letters Patent N0. 208,842, dated Octoheri' 1878; application filed September 23, 197

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS l. NIcHoLsoN, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ornamental Stove-Plates, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of stove-plates which are ornamented with supplementary plates having polished or nickel-plated surfaces; and the main object of my invention is to protect the polished plate from the evil efl'ects of a carelessly-handled blacking-brush.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a stove-plate which forms part of the outer cylinder of a base-burning stove, and to which my improvement is applied, and Fig. 2 a section of the plate.

Many stove-plates, and especially those composing the outer cylinders of modern baseburning stoves, are now ornamented with nickel-plated panels, a recess, for instance, being formed in the middle of each segmental plate A for the reception of a nickel-plated panel, B, which is bolted or otherwise secured, as shown in Fig. 2, the panel being ornamented with different designs and being ground, polished, and nickel-plated before it is secured in its place, while all of the plateA excepting the panel is blackened with ordinary stovepolish. This blackening operation must be repeated at intervals in order to maintain the stove in a neat condition.

Asthis dutyis usually performed by servantgirls, who are often careless, the panels are frequently smeared with the stove-polish, and in attempting to remove the smears the polished nickel-plated surface is often scratched and otherwise defaced until it detracts from the general neat appearance of the stove.

In order to obviate this difliculty I first bronze each section A by an electro-deposit of copper-an operation which can be cheaply done without any preparation of the surface of the casting other than a thorough cleans- 1n g.

The bronzed surface will withstand any ordinary heat to which the exposed plate is liable to be subjected, and surrounding the bright nickel-plated panel. presents a pleasing contrast therewith.

But the important duty which this bronzed surface performs is that it obviates the necessity of approaching the polished plate with the blacking-brush in other words, the bronzed surface, which serves as a border on all sides of the panel, presents an appearance so neat and attractive that the servant who has to black the stove will be careful to keep the brush away from the bronzed surface, which thus serves to shield the polished surface of the panel from the inroad of a carelessly-handled brush.

The brush may, however, trespass upon the bronzed surface without any injurious effects, for the smears can be wiped from the bronzed surface Without any injury to the latter, Whereas the removal of smears from the polished nickelplated surface frequently results in the permanent disfiguring of the same.

I claim as my invention- A stove-plate composed of an ordinary casting bronzed or copper-plated and a panel pol ished or nickel-plated, all as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS P. NICHOLSON. \Vitnesses:

HARRY A. CRAWFORD, HARRY SMITH. 

